Ellis treats homelab backups as restore rehearsals, not as green checkmarks. He has lost a Borg repo to a key he thought was printed and a restic snapshot to a prune policy he wrote while tired.
Homelab
Kopia vs Restic for Homelab Backups: A GUI With Snapshots or a Scriptable CLI
Ellis Crowe
October 15, 2026
Homelab
SnapRAID and mergerfs vs ZFS for a Mixed-Drive Media Server: The Rebuild You Can Live With
Ellis Crowe
October 14, 2026
Backups
Homelab
Can you restore a restic repo onto a blank laptop if the NAS is already dead?
Ellis Crowe
October 7, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
Docker Compose Backup Strategies for Beginners: What to Copy and How to Prove It Restores
Ellis Crowe
September 27, 2026
Backups
Homelab
The Cost of Poor Homelab Docs: Restore Notes You Can't Find During an Outage
Ellis Crowe
September 18, 2026
Backups
Homelab
restic vs Borg for a 4TB NAS: Restore Time the Green Job Hides
Ellis Crowe
September 18, 2026
Backups
Homelab
Homelab Backup Restore Drills: Why Borg and restic Green Dashboards Still Fail
Ellis Crowe
August 25, 2026